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Schools, 1875

10 stories in Riverina's papers

Local Intelligence. the Wagga Public School and the University Examinations

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 27 January 1875 · page 2

IT will be remembered that at the time the lists of successful competitors in the late University Public Examinations were published, the Wagga Public School was omitted,…

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School Beading Books

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 2

THE Melbourne Argus has, I observe, in a series of articles, been drawing attention to this subject and while of course I cannot deal with, it so fully as the. metropolitan…

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On Schools. (From On Babies and Ladders.)

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 12 May 1875 · page 5

SCHOOLS are places where bad-tempered men beat vicious, dirty-faced children whenever they have a mind to do so. That is to say, schools are such, except when thin red-nosed…

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Public Schools

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 4

ADELONG:—Visited, 22nd and 23rd June. Present at examination:—Boys, 57; girls, 47; total, 104. This school is held temporarily in the hospital buildings. The…

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A Lively Spelling School

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 17 July 1875 · page 4

AN impromptu spelling school, reports the Danbury News, was inaugurated in Morrill’s grocery, the other evening. A young man, who last winter aided…

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Agricultural Schools

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 24 July 1875 · page 4

On the subject of the advisableness of providing agricultural schools in Queensland, a correspondent in the Queenslander recently commonted as…

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The Blessing of St. Michael's Boys' School, Wagga. (Communicated.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1875 · page 2

On Sunday last, 7th inst., Wagga was the scene of a splendid ceremony. On that day the Very Reverend Dr. M'Alroy, assisted by Father Kelly, of Tumut, and Dr…

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Sunday School Pic-nics

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1875 · page 4

REFERRING to the Dean of Sydney's lately expressed condemnation of Sunday school pic-nics a correspondent of the ' S.M. Herald' who adopts the nom de plume of "Thorough"…

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Girls in the Schoolroom

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 27 November 1875 · page 7

PEOPLE of a certain rank are supposed to be able to take care of the health and, education of them own children, But experience shows this , to be an…

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Albury. [From a Correspondent.] the Catholic Schools Examinations

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 22 December 1875 · page 2

To those connected and concerned with the training of the youthful generation, the Christmas examinations, with distribution of prizes, are matters of 110 small interest or…

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